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Design of a Hierarchical Ternary Hybrid for a Fiber-Shaped Asymmetric Supercapacitor with High Volumetric Energy Density
journal contribution
posted on 2016-04-28, 00:00 authored by Xunliang Cheng, Jing Zhang, Jing Ren, Ning Liu, Peining Chen, Ye Zhang, Jue Deng, Yonggang Wang, Huisheng PengA novel fiber-shaped supercapacitor
is created with high volumetric
energy density by designing an asymmetric configuration and integrating
multiple functional components for electrodes. More specifically,
a ternary hybrid fiber is prepared as a positive electrode by growing
MnO2 nanosheets onto a conducting polymer-coated carbon
nanotube fiber; an ordered microporous carbon/carbon nanotube hybrid
fiber is made as a negative electrode; and the hybrid positive and
negative fibers are assembled into a fiber-shaped asymmetric supercapacitor.
It shows a high operating voltage of 1.8 V, compared with 0.8–1.0
V of their conventional counterparts based on aqueous gel electrolytes;
in particular, it produces an energy density as high as 11.3 mWh/cm3 which is on par with the thin-film lithium-ion batteries.
It also exhibits remarkable cyclic stability and good rate performance.
Due to the unique fiber shape, it can be woven or knitted into flexible
power textiles.